Reading this reminded me of the times when Laura only spoke of Native Americans.
Mostly I really liked it. The stories were all really interesting and seemed real, well just made reservation life sem more real than anything I had ever read or seen before. It was really funny sometimes and then really sad. I liked how he would randomly put a super depressing statement in the middle of the stories... hilarious!!
A lot of the time I couldn't help but be reminded of Smoke Signals and how OBNOXIOUS freakin Thomas's voice was when he would say, "Hey Victor..." Oh my freaking gosh he was so annoying.
I really liked it though Laura... yes... I liked the Native American crap. I'm reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee now so be excited.
Friday, August 8, 2008 | ramble by groovybaby at 11:08 PM |
Tonto and The Lone Ranger Fist Fight in Heaven
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OH MY GOSH I AM VERY EXCITED!
TERRI THAT'S AWESOME! if you read the whole book you will be doing more than my class did for native america, because we were only required to read a couple chapters. But then the tests were over the entire book :-) so he got us in the end.
You said you mostly liked it, what didn't you like about it? I had a hard time following which character was which, and what time period it was all in (I remember him jumping around a lot)
Oh, and it is The Lone Ranger and Tonto fist fight in Heaven, TERRI, gah get your books right.
ALSO Sherman Alexie did a screenplay called the Business of Fancydancing that I think you should watch (The library has it!)
and a book called Reservation Blues. In case you were wondering, Reservation Blues uses a lot of the same characters, but doesn't really follow what happened in The Lone Ranger.
For example Junior dies at the end.
I REALLY liked "The approximate size of my favorite tumor."
What did you think of that?
Which short stories did you like the most?
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